"September 11" incident 21st anniversary: Biden said he never forgot that Americans have never stopped worrying 丨 International Observation

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"We will never forget." On the morning of the 11th local time, the US President Bynden wrote to commemorate the 21st anniversary of the "September 11" incident in the United States.

Today, 21 years ago, terrorists hijacked four civil aviation passenger planes rushed to the New York World Trade Center and Pentagon, and completely wiped out the Gemini Tower of the New York Landmark World Trade Center from the Urban Skyline. The World Trade Center was built in 1970. The outer wall is a glass curtain wall, with a total of 28 floors, 26 floors above ground, and 2 floors underground. There are more than 1200 companies in the building and more than 500,000 employees.

Biden: "A debt that can never be repaid"

According to the official website of the US Pentagon, at 9 o'clock on the 11th local time, US President Biden attended the 21st anniversary ceremony of the "September 11" incident held in the Pentagon's "September 11" Memorial Hall. Chairman Milly also attended the event.

In his speech on the same day, "For all our soldiers and their family members, they made so many sacrifices for our country. We owe you, and we owe you a huge debt. A stroke can never be a stroke. The debt repaid. "

Biden said, "After 21 years, we still have a fresh memory of all valuable lives that are taken away by the ruins of the World Trade Center, Pennsylvania, and Pennsylvania, and the Pentagon. Madam) Holding it tightly with you in my heart. "

It is reported that the 21st anniversary of the "September 11" incident was not open to the public, and only the families of the victims were allowed to go to mourning.

Less than a month after "9 · 11"

Afghanistan war began

US official information shows that the "September 11" incident seized the lives of 2996 people. Within a month after the "September 11" incident, the United States launched the Afghan war in the name of "anti -terrorism".

In the first 10 years, the U.S. military was trapped in the quagmire of the Taliban guerrillas in the Afghan battlefield. Ten years later, the U.S. military began to withdraw troops, and then spent 10 years and finally completed the evacuation. Until the end of August 2021, the U.S. military announced that it would withdraw from Afghanistan.

The Afghanistan war that lasted for nearly 20 years has brought huge losses to Americans and Afghanians. According to statistics from the University of Brown, the United States, in the 20 -year Afghanistan war, the United States paid more than 2,400 soldiers' death and more than $ 2 trillion in losses.

Afghanistan died more than 30,000 civilians due to war, and more than 60,000 civilians were injured, and about 11 million people became refugees. The long -term war led to the decline of Afghanistan's economy. About 72%of the people lived below the poverty line, with an unemployment rate of 38%.

For 21 years

Americans have not stopped worrying

After the "September 11" incident, US military expenses entered the track of growth, and the federal government fell into a fiscal deficit. The budget and funding of the people's livelihood fields such as medical care, education, and transportation continued to be squeezed, which exacerbated the US economic injustice. Hua and society tear.

Now 21 years have passed, although there is no large -scale terrorist attack similar to the "September 11" incident in the United States, the Americans have not stopped worrying.

The United States "News Weekly" reported on September 2 that the US Department of Land Security, the Federal Investigation Agency and the National Anti -Terrorism Center announced that foreign terrorist organizations may use the 21st anniversary of the "September 11" incident and the first anniversary of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. And the news of the "base" organization, Emman Zavahri, was killed by the U.S. military, inciting the extreme violence of the United States.

At the same time, the United States is facing increasingly severe security pressure, and various violence events have occurred frequently. U.S. media surveys show that under the influence of surging shootings, Americans' fear and anxiety are also increasing day by day.

According to a poll last year, only 49%of Americans believe that the country is more secure than the "September 11" terrorist attack in 2001. This data is less than 64%of 11 years ago.

More and more Americans have said that the "September 11" incident has a greater negative impact on the country. According to polls, 86%of people believe that the "September 11" incident has a long -lasting impact on the United States, and 46%said that the "September 11" incident made the country worse.

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